WEST WINDSOR — A quick glance at tennisrecruiting.net will show that Princeton High sophomore Christina Rosca is ranked first in USTA New Jersey districts, fourth in Middle States and 32nd nationally in the girls 16-year-old division.

She is listed as a 5-Star recruit — the second best ranking behind Blue Chip — and last summer fell to Alexandria Letzt of Arizona in the USTA Nationals Round of 32. Letzt is ranked No. 6 nationally.

That’s all pretty big-time stuff. And yet Rosca still found extreme joy in becoming the Queen of the County Wednesday by winning the first singles championship in the Mercer County Tournament at Mercer County Park.

“Of course,” Rosca said. “It’s an honor. It isn’t that easy to be the best in any region at all, so definitely this is big.”

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“I think she’s really enjoying being part of a team,” Little Tigers coach Sarah Hibbert said. “She does so much individual tournament stuff where it’s very competitive, but she’s really humble about it.

“She enjoys these games even though she could probably play lefty as well as righty. She likes being out here and competing and it’s nice to have that level because it gives the other girls something to look up to as well. It’s a great role model to have. She’s very much a team player.”

Rosca helped Princeton to a second-place finish and prevented a West Windsor-Plainsboro South sweep in the finals, as she beat talented Pirate sophomore Claudia Siniakowicz 6-1, 6-0 in the championship round. In four MCT matches, she lost a total of four games as her ferociously powerful ground strokes were relentless.

Asked if she just winds her up and let’s her go, Hibbert chuckled.

“I went down the other day when she was cruising through a match and said ‘I just wanted to make sure you didn’t feel neglected out there,’” the coach said. “She’s played so many hours, so many tournaments, that she knows what to do.

“Occasionally she needs a reminder when she chooses a game plan, that she needs to try changing a little bit. But she often knows that too, she’s a very good self diagnostic player. She knows when she has to change things and adapts to things on the court quite well.”

Rosca began playing tennis at age four after watching her parents. She’s unsure of when she started lessons, but remembers volleying back and forth with her dad at a young age.

At last year’s MCT, she fell to Princeton Day School’s Sam Asch in the finals.

“There’s no shame in losing there, Sam’s a very good player,” Rosca said. “But it made me want to play just as hard and just as well this year to try to win it. There are still very good people playing here so it wasn’t that easy.”

She only made it look easy, as she stormed past Siniakowicz, who plays in the 18-year-old division in USTA.

“Claudia’s a tough player,” Rosca said. “I just think I definitely played pretty well. I felt like I was hitting my forehand a little late. There’s always room for improvement, but I think I played pretty well.”